On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 12:36 +0000, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:17:17PM +0000, Joe wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:17:53 +0000 > > Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Now, I'm not certain about this, but I suspect that either the > > > initramfs hasn't recognised that I'm using LVM, or it just isn't > > > starting the LVM on its own. > > > > > > I haven't actually investigated this, but it might be related to bug > > > #616689. > > > > Except... both the OP's initramfs and mine do recognise the swap > > partition within LVM, but not any others. > > > > And my system is (apparently) OK after downgrading grub from the latest > > version. > > Ah. Sorry for the noise, then. >
Your answer proved not be noise at all. I tried to follow Joe's steps and downgraded grub2-common, grub-common, grub-pc and grub-pc-bin all to jessie (2.00-22), ran update-grub2 and then grub-install /dev/sda and lost my grub.cfg. I've restored it using supergrubdisk, which, when booting, gave me access to that previous initramfs shell. Then I ran vgchange -ay ^D, ^D and was able to boot the system. One thing caught my eye through the process: grub says it's generating configs for i386 only, but this machine uses amd64 kernel. As soon as I get the chance I'll read #616689 and try to investigate it further on this machine. Currently it only boots through this forced activation method you taught me. -- André N. Batista GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80
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